FRKPA Meeting Sunday March 25, 2012
Meeting came to order at 105PM at Porter Hospital Poncha Springs Room
Minutes read by Joan Bravdica
Financials read by Joan Bravdica
Speaker was Connie Paeglow, MSW – Social Worker from Fresenius.
For those of you who were there – I know you derived much information from Ms Paeglow. She talked about all the duties of a social worker and she talked about other things such as Living Wills, DNR (do not resuscitate), death and dying directives, etc. She had answers for us that we didn’t even have to ask.
Here is a brief description of what your social worker does:
- A social worker is a support person for patients both before and after they start dialysis.
- The main duty of the social worker is to help patients and their families learn how to cope with kidney disease. They help patients adjust to life on dialysis. They advise you of the different options such as transplant, in-clinic hemo dialysis, home hemo dialysis, peritoneal dialysis, etc. They help educate you on ways to enjoy a better quality of life.
- They help patients to know what their benefits are and to advise you on financial situations and insurance issues.
There are so many things your social workers does for you that there are just to many to list. I am sorry you missed her (for those of you who did not attend). It was a very education meeting.
Refreshments were there to be had by all. What was left was taken home by members.
Vince gave a brief talk about the new FRKPA website (frkpa.org). You are all welcome to log on and become a member.
A total in donations was $30.
Our next meeting will be the last Sunday in June (June 24, 2012). Details will be emailed to you. For those who have not attended a meeting within the last year – you will be removed from our mailing list.
WE ALL WANT TO THANK CONNIE PAEGLOW FOR HER GREAT TALK.
Meeting adjourned at 3PM.